Arts-in-the-Sun - Recommended Readings

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The Bookshelf

Dog-Eared

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future – Daniel H. Pink
Asking – Jerold Panas
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning – AEP; ed. Edward B. Fiske
for Understanding – Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Critical Evidence: How the ARTS Benefit Student Achievement – Sandra S. Ruppert
Deeper Learning – Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen
The Element – Ken Robinson
The Fred Factor – Mark Sanborn
The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards – Jerold Panas
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts – Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, and Arthur Brooks
Mega Gifts – Jerold Panas
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson
Readicide – Kelly Gallagher
Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People – Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein
Strategies for Differentiating Instruction – Julia L. Roberts and Tracy F. Inman
Teaching with Poverty in Mind – Eric Jensen
The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman

Completing the Puzzle: The Brain-Compatible Approach to Leaning – Eric Jensen
Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching – Robyn R. Jackson
Teaching with the Brain in Mind – Eric Jensen
The Rise of the Creative Class – Richard Florida
Third Space: When Learning Matters – AEP, Lauren M. Stevenson and Richard J. Deasy

The Art and Science of Teaching – Robert J. Marzano
Assessing Differentiated Student Products – Julia L. Roberts and Tracy F. Inman
Different Brains, Different Learners – Eric Jensen
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts – Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, and Arthur Brooks
Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids – Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe
Learning with the Body in Mind – Eric Jensen
Managing Diverse Classrooms: How to Build on Students’ Cultural
Multiple Intelligences – Thomas Armstrong
Slide:ology – Nancy Duarte
Strengths – Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull
Start with the Arts – VSA Arts
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas – Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton
Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge – The National Arts Education Consortium
Understanding by Design – Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can be More Creative – Roger von Oech
What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action – Robert J. Marzano

Art Auction Mystery: Find the Fakes, Save the Sale – Anna Nilson
Barn Dance! – Pat Hutchins
The Bat Boy & His Violin – Gavin Curtis
Chicken Joy on Redbean Road – Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Dear Mr. Blueberry – Simon James
Duke Ellington – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Follow the Drinking Gourd – Jeanette Winter
Gobble It Up! A Fun Song about Eating – Jim Arnosky
Grandpa’s Music: A Story about Alzheimer’s – Alison Acheson
I pledge allegiance – Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson
I’ve Painted Everything! – Scott Magoon
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – Maya Angelou
Lift Every Voice and Sing – James Weldon Johnson
Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – John Scieszka and Lane Smith
Summertime – Dubose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward
Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales – Kristin G. Congdon

The Arts as Meaning Makers – Integrating Literature and the Arts Throughout the Classroom – Claudia E. Cornett
The Book Whisperer – Donalyn Miller
Arts Integration Frameworks, Research & Practice: A Literature Review – Gail Burnaford
I Never Saw Another Butterfly – ed. Hana Volavková
Multiple Forms of Literacy: Teaching Literacy and the Arts – Carolyn L. Piazza
Readicide – Kelly Gallagher
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas – Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton

Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom – Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart
Assessing Differentiated Student Products – Julia L. Roberts and Tracy F. Inman
Assessing Student Outcomes – Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jay McTighe
Checking for Understanding – Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Transformative Assessment – W. James Popham

The Bat Boy & His Violin – Gavin Curtis
Duke Ellington – Andrea Davis Pinkney
Exploring Careers in Music – MENC; compiled by Paul Bjorneberg
Follow the Drinking Gourd – Jeanette Winter
Gobble It Up! A Fun Song about Eating – Jim Arnosky
Lift Every Voice and Sing – James Weldon Johnson
Music with the Brain in Mind – Eric Jensen
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain – Oliver Sacks
Summertime – Dubose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward
Vision 2020: The Housewright Symposium on the Future of Music Education – MENC; ed. Clifford K. Madsen
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights - Russell Freedman
The Worst Band in the Universe – Graeme Base

Acts of Achievement: The Role of Performing Arts Centers in Education – ed. Stephen Marcus, Jane L. Polin, and Barbara Rich, Ed.D.
Art Works!: Prevention Programs for Youth & Communities – NEA; Paula Randall
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination – Susan J. Bodilly and Catherine H. Augustine
Transforming Arts Teaching: The Role of Higher Education – ed. Jane L. Polin and Barbara Rich, Ed.D.